Spraying beats brushing

[jfkbengals]

(05-30-2020, 03:43 PM)grampahol Wrote: Highly depends on the type of equipment used. I did spraying for a living for several years. Airless sprayers are really meant for speed and coverage as quickly as possible whereas a conventional pnumatic sprayer is for finer finishing. The technology has moved quite a bit in spraying. The last job I worked in for a corporate job they purchased a high dollar HVLP system.  The amount of overspray was drastically reduced. I went from spraying over 70 gallons per week to under 10 overnight with almost zero paint loss with a really nice finish. .  You can still buy the conventional systems and a lot of people still do including myself, but if I were doing a high volume of spraying I'd definitely invest in a good quality HVLP sprayer. The cheap HVLP guns are really no better than the older conventional guns. In fact some are merely relabled as HVLP when they're just cheap conventionals.  I own 2, both Harbor Freight models. 1 is allegedly an HVLP gun and the other just a conventional with a large bored spray cap for shooting thicker paint. I'd never think of painting a car finish with either one. At least I'd go find an old DeBelvis in a pawn shop. I owned a few really good DeBelvis models when I painted cars and trucks. 

I have that same one.  Used it to do 3/4 of the fence around our pool and the back deck in about the time that 4 people took for the last 1/4 and a small wooden retaining wall by hand.  But they proportionately used about 50-60% of the amount of product I used per square foot.